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The Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois), who invented the sport of lacrosse and which has spiritual significance to them, were initially denied a spot to compete at the 2022 World Games, despite the Haudenosaunee national team's placement at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship, due to not having a recognized NOC and issues concerning ...
Changing demographics and opinions in the country meant that more than 80% of citizens in 2016 saw themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, [73] whereas in 1991, this figure was only 13.6%. [74] This radical upswell in Taiwanese national identity has seen a re-appraisal and removal of "sinocentric" labels and figures established by the government ...
IOC country code. TPE. Country code top-level domain.tw. ICAO aircraft regis. prefix. B-E.212 mobile country code. 466. NATO three-letter code. TWN. NATO two-letter code. TW. LOC MARC code. CH. ITU Maritime ID. 416. ITU letter code — FIPS country code. TW. License plate code. RC. GS1 GTIN prefix. 471. UNDP country code — WMO country code ...
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), competes as "Chinese Taipei" (TPE) at the Olympic Games since 1984. Athletes compete under the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag instead of the flag of the Republic of China; for any medal ceremony, the National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China is played instead of the National Anthem of the Republic of China.
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...
Pan-American countries by population, 2020. This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections.
TPE (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable; Thermoplastic elastomer, a class of copolymers with both thermoplastic and elastomeric properties; Transponder equivalent, a method of comparing communication satellite bandwidths; Triphenylethylene, the parent compound of a group of selective estrogen receptor modulators
Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (IATA: TPE, ICAO: RCTP) — also referred to as Taipei-Taoyuan International Airport — is an international airport situated in Taoyuan City that serves northern Taiwan, including the capital city Taipei.